Ayendy Bonifacio

Ayendy Bonifacio is a Dominican American writer, poet, and scholar whose work explores memory, migration, race, and the legacies of colonialism in the Americas. He is the author of Dique Dominican: A Memoir; To the River, We Are Migrants: Poems/Poemas; and the scholarly monograph Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the U.S. Press, 1855–1901. His debut novel, Bless Me, Papi, is forthcoming in 2026. Bonifacio’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other outlets. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Toledo in Ohio where he lives with his partner and daughter.